Are you someone who feels like no matter what you’ve tried, you somehow keep creating the same patterns over and over again?
Trust me, this isn’t your fault.
You’ve been shown how to set intentions, create vision boards, and declare what you want to manifest in the new year—but there’s a crucial component that needs to happen BEFORE any of that in order for your heart’s true desires to come forward.
The Step Everyone Skips
There’s really no point to new year’s intentions without releasing what is old, outdated, and worn-out. Without integrating this releasing aspect, your energy doesn’t shift. The result? You unconsciously sign an automatic lease renewal on a life that doesn’t work for you anymore, including the same life patterns and challenges.
We’re taught to manifest. But we’re never taught to release. This is a crucial component most people skip entirely because our culture is obsessed with addition, not subtraction.
Creating Space in the Chaos for Silence & Purifying Your Thoughts
Slowing down. Silence. The very opposite of what we feel pressured to do. Yet this is when consciously creating space for yourself matters most.
One powerful ritual that can support this process is smoke cleansing—often known as smudging in Indigenous cultures, but a practice that has existed across human history. Ancient Egyptians did it. The Greeks. Europeans. Japanese cultures. Catholics have used incense for centuries.
There’s something alchemical happening when we burn plants. We’re honoring the full cycle of life: seed, growth, harvest, death—and then transformation into smoke that serves a new purpose.
The smoke itself becomes a physical, visual representation of the clouding in our minds that inhibits our connection to Source, to the Divine. We put something tangible in the air to acknowledge what’s blocking us, and in doing so, we prepare our minds to more deeply connect with our Truth and Divine Knowing.
What Does Your Heart Know?
As you breathe and center yourself, ask:
What do I need to let go of in order to create the space for what I am bringing forward next?
What feels worn out, tired, old in how you are operating?
What do I need to release that will deepen my ability to trust my heart’s knowing?
Re-Lease: Signing a New Contract With Yourself
Here’s a perspective shift that changes everything: break down the word “release” into Re-Lease.
You get to sign a new lease on how you are living your life.
This is huge. This is not something we want to take lightly, or you will continue creating the same old patterns despite all your manifestation work or intentions—because you’re still leased up to an old contract of how you see yourself.
What is your new lease on life? Your new contract with yourself and the way you are being called to live from your Truth?
Manifestation without inner transformation first is like having your old lease on life on automatic renewal. Nothing changes.
This time of sacred darkness is when you get to become conscious about what truly matters to you. So you can determine with reverence what must end before something new can begin.
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